Green Mango and Spinach Smoothie

10 October 2014

I cracked it, I made a green smoothie that Cooper likes. YAY!!!

The last time I tried to persuade him he would love one by calling it Stegosaurus Smoothie and it had limited success. He did try it, but didn't get much further than that. It's a shame really as that is one of my absolute favourite smoothies.

This time, I had a tray of ripe mangoes, but I wanted to add some green in there, so I added spinach. I know, I use a lot of spinach, but it's great stuff and so good for you. This time I added a cube of frozen spinach to my smoothie. I also added half a ripe avocado to add a creaminess to it.

Of course I whizzed up my smoothie in my Optimum 9400. I'm sure you're sick of hearing about it by now, but if you're interested in getting one yourself remember to use my link and the voucher code "Special Ambassador Offer" to receive an extra 2 years warranty free.

So this time he loved the smoothie. How did I do it? Well I poured it into his metal dinosaur drinking bottle and popped it in the fridge. I told him it was there and he just kept popping into the fridge to have some. Of course I shouldn't congratulate myself too much, he couldn't actually see it was green.

1. Prepare the fruit. If you don't have a powerful blender like mine, cut the fruit into small pieces and use fresh spinach as the frozen spinach may kill the motor.2. Add the fruit to a blender with the baobab powder and the orange juice and whizz until smooth and well blended.3. Pour, add a straw and enjoy!

Clever you putting the offending greenness into a metal bottle! Love your ingenuity and love this smoothie. I tend not to put avocados in my smoothies because then that means I wouldn't (calorie-wise) be able to eat them on toast.And I can't not do that! But for reluctant smoothie slurpers the nutrition and texture bonus is great. Oh, and thanks for linking to my recipe. Much appreciated :-)

Believe it or not I hadn't thought about hiding the smoothie in a flask, and this may just be the very solution to getting my monsters to finally drink a green smoothie! Sounds a lovely combo too Jac, so going to try!

Very clever putting it into his drinks bottle! I don't often add avo to my smoothies - but I will now. And I have the same drinking glasses as you (well, one left. Gravity hits pretty hard around here and we've smashed the other three...)

Haha I love the story about putting it in a metal bottle so you can't see the color to get Cooper to drink it! Since it works for your little one, I think I have to try it on my husband to get him to like green juices... :)

Haha, good idea Tina. Think it will work? It definitely works for Cooper. I gave him some green smoothie in a mini milk bottle with a stripey paper straw yesterday and it was super tasty, but he only had a few sips and was done. Back to his metal bottle I think.

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